[racket] [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior\

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Sun Nov 25 15:50:20 EST 2012

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nadeem at acm.org> wrote:

> > My experience is htat when you use a mode like Nadeem is developing it is
>> > impossible to write code with unbalanced parentheses unless specifically
>> > desire to do so.
>>
>> Yes, it gets difficult to do so.  But you might start with a file whose
>> parenteses are unbalanced.
>>
>
> Or yank/cut/copy/paste portions of text such that they become unbalanced...
>

Exactly. At that point you are intentionally not-using the s-expression
editing functionality to perform delete operations that are likely to
result in un-balanced parentheses. That is a feature, you know you are
doing it.
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